A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
To fix the ground where Paradise was placed;
Mind not their learned whims and idle talk;
Here, here’s the place where these bright angels walk.

A few random poems:
- Revelation poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Colored Balloon by Mike Yuan
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) poem – Ezra Pound poems
- To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
- The Red Lacquer Music-Stand poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Love Elegy (in imitation of Tibullus) by Tobias Smollett
- Mark Twain and Joan of Arc by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я был слесарь шестого разряда
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games by William Somervile
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Gentlmen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling
- Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXI by William Shakespeare
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
- To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
- To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant
- The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant
- The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant
- The Strange Lady by William Cullen Bryant
- The Skies by William Cullen Bryant
- The Living Lost by William Cullen Bryant
- The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant
- The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
- The Death of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant
- The Constellations by William Cullen Bryant
- Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
- Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant
- Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant
- October by William Cullen Bryant
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Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.